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Dr. Devika Kataria

Professor

Electronics & Communication Engineering

Institute of Engineering & Technology

Biography

Dr. Devika Kataria earned her Ph.D. in Microelectronics and VLSI from IIT Kanpur. She holds a B.E. and M.Tech. in Electronics and Digital Communication from MANIT, Bhopal. With nine years of experience in the optical fiber industry, she played a pivotal role in establishing an optical fiber manufacturing plant, leading it to achieve ISO certification.

In academia, Dr. Kataria was honored as the Best Tutor at IIT Kanpur in 2013 for Fundamentals for Electronics and received good feedback consistently for the course. She is deeply committed to mentoring students on projects and internships in Cyber-Physical Systems and Cybersecurity. Her guidance has also extended to fostering innovation in sustainable development and the circular economy, where her teams have secured international incubation grants through the Circular Cities Enterprise Program.

Education

  • Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, 2017

    PhD

    Focus: Flexible Electronics.

  • MANIT Bhopal, 2006

    M.Tech

    Major: Digital Communication

  • MANIT Bhopal, 1991

    B.Tech

    Major: Electronics Engineering

  • Cyber Physical Systems
  • Communication Networks
  • Flexible Electronics

  • Devika Kataria and Gustavo Sanchez and Jyoti Prakash Naidu and Mandayam A. Srinivasan, Design of Flexible Tactile Array Sensor, IETE Journal of Research (2021). https://doi.org/10.1080/03772063.2021.1911692 (SCI Indexed, Impact factor:1.6)
  • Devika Kataria, S.S.K. Iyer,” Design of MoO3 Buffer Layer for Plasmonic Organic Solar Cell”, Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy, 10, 021003 (2018). https://dOI.ORG/10.1063/1.5000292 (SCI Indexed, Impact factor: 2.4)
  • Kataria, D., & Kumar Iyer, S. S, Effect of metal nanoparticles' contact angle on absorption of light in organic solar cell active layer. Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy, 5(3), (2013) https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4812449 (SCI Indexed, Impact factor: 2.4)
  • Kataria, D., Krishnamoorthy, K., & Iyer, S. S. K. Increasing light coupling in a photovoltaic film by tuning nanoparticle shape with substrate surface energy. Materials Research Express, 4(8), 085022, (2017). doi:10.1088/2053-1591/aa827 (SCI index, Impact Factor: 2.0)
  • Kataria, D., Sanchez, G., & Govindasamy, S. “Fundamentals of Automation Engineering: A hybrid project-based learning approach”. The International Journal of Electrical Engineering & Education (2020). https://doi.org/10.1177/0020720920928 (SCI index, Impact Factor: 0.093)
  • Dadhich, K., & Kataria, D. Multiple parameter decision for backoff counter optimization of medical body area network. Wireless Networks, 1-17, (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11276-024-03741-1 SCI Indexed, Impact Factor: 3.0)

  • “Teaching Industrial IoT: a hands-on-first approach” in Open-Source Book Insights into Global Engineering Education After the Birth of Industry 5.0, Intech Open Publishers, DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.100217.
  • “Wearable IoT using MBANs” in Book AI for Human Computer Interaction by CRC Press (Taylor and Francis), September 2022. eBook ISBN9781003415466.

  • Dadhich, K., & Kataria, D., Effect of Channel Slot Time on Performance of IEEE 802.15. 6-Based Medical Body Area Network. In the International Conference on Advanced Network Technologies and Intelligent Computing (pp. 376-385), 2023 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-28180-8_25
  • Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland.
  • Sethi, A., & Kataria, D., Analysing Emergent Complexity in Particle Swarm Optimization using a Rolling Technique for Updating Hyperparameter Coefficients. Procedia Computer Science,193, 513-523, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procs.2021.10.053 (Scopus Indexed)
  • Dadhich, K., Dadhich, V., & Kataria, D., Healthcare Monitoring Using Wireless Sensors. In 2022 IEEE Delhi Section Conference (DELCON) (pp. 1-6). IEEE 2022. https://10.1109/DELCON54057.2022.9753456 (Scopus Indexed).
  • Parhi, A. P., Tripathi, D. C., & Kataria, D. Study of the open circuit voltage dependence on incident light intensity of planar heterojunction organic solar cell. Materials Today: Proceedings, (2020), https://dOI.ORG/10.1016/j.matPR.2020.08.682 (Scopus and CPCI indexed)
  • Rao, K. Sudheendra, Devika Kataria, and Durgesh C. Tripathi. "Electrical defects in m- MTDATA studied using charge transient spectroscopy." Materials Today: Proceedings (2020) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matpr.2020.07.559 (Scopus and CPCI indexed).
  • Kataria, D., & Sanchez, G. Design on Project-Based Learning for Analog Circuits. In 2020 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE) (pp. 1-4). IEEE 2020. doi: 10.1109/FIE44824.2020.9273954 (Scopus Indexed).
  • Devika Kataria, Sudhir Kumar, Sumit Balguvhar, R. Mukhiya, Ankush Kumar Jain, S Santosh Kumar and Soumendu, “Realization of MEMS based Silicon Cantilever using Bulk Micromachining”, at 2017 International Conference on Recent Innovations in Signal processing and Embedded Systems (RISE2017), MANIT Bhopal, October 27th - 29th, 2017. doi: 10.1109/RISE.2017.8378193 (Scopus Indexed)
  • Devika Kataria and S Sundar Kumar Iyer, “Optimization of MoO3 Buffer Layer Thickness for Short Circuit Current Enhancement in Ag Nanoparticle Incorporated Cu-Pc Solar Cell”, Photovoltaic specialist conference (PVSC-42) at New Orleans, June 14th-19th, 2015. doi: 10.1109/PVSC.2015.7355733. (Scopus Indexed).
  • Devika Kataria, G. Sanchez, J.P. Naidu, Teaching Cyber-Physical-Social-Systems Through Project Based Learning, EDULEARN22 Proceedings, pp. 9541-9550, 2022.
  • Dadhich, Khushboo, and Devika Kataria. "Performance Evaluation of Saturated Medical Body Area Network using Priority Reassignment." In 2024 3rd International Conference for Innovation in Technology (INOCON), pp. 1-6. IEEE, 2024. doi: 10.1109/INOCON60754.2024.10511875

  • Smart Monitoring of Belt Tension and Slip, Inventors: Devika Kataria, Jyoti Prakash Naidu, Rohit, V. Sunder, US patent # 11,235,934 granted dated 1 Feb 2022.

  • Analog VLSI Circuits
  • Digital Systems Design
  • Internet of Things
  • Principles of Cyber Security

  • Industrial IoT, Cyber Security using AI

  • Conducted Workshop on Cyber Security for Power Professionals as part of NPTI workshop in collaboration with Whizhack Technologies, 28 Nov – 2 Dec 2023.

  • Professor, JK Lakshmipat University. (Feb. 2022 - Present).
  • Associate Professor, JK Lakshmipat University. (Dec 20116 – Jan 2022).
  • Associate Professor, GREIT, Hyderabad (November 2007 to May 2010).

  • Assistant Secretary (Academics), IETE HQ – June 2005 to October 2007.

  • Alexandria Engineering Journal, Elsevier.
  • Materials Today: Proceedings
  • TENSYMP 2019 Conference Proceedings

  • Mentoring students for Circular Economy Campus.

  • Conference Chair, Session Work in Progress for First Years, Frontiers in Education 2020, USA.
  • Conference Chair, Session on VLSI, Recent Innovations in Signal Processing and Embedded Systems (IEEE conference), RISE 2017.
  • Conference Chair, International Conference on Sustainable Future: Innovations in Education, 2022.

  • Fellow member of Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers.
  • IEEE Member, Membership No 90446096.

  • Certificate on Advanced Program in Cyber Security and Cyber Defence, IIT Jodhpur TISC, 2021.

  • Team member of project “Application of AWS for Crop Digital Twin: bio/physiology monitoring as-a-service for insurance” funded by Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, Government of India (MietY, GoI).

  • Recognised for Tutorship of Electronics Science by Academic Senate of IIT Kanpur in 2013.

  • Mentored team for Smart Lamina Invention, JKLU Team declared winner in Category A (Disruptive Innovations) in National Flexi Innovation Challenge held by National Centre for Flexible Electronics, IIT Kanpur.
  • AI for Predicting Bird Migration for providing habitat: Mentored Team Dam Verse, JK Lakshmipat University, mentored as part of the Circular Economy Enterprise Program 2024 organized by Circular Cities Asia, secured an incubation grant of 2,500 Canadian Dollars.
  • Flexible Solar Panel on Recycled Optical Discs, Team Photon Pioneers, JK Lakshmipat University, mentored as part of the Circular Economy Enterprise Program 2023 organized by Circular Cities Asia, secured an incubation grant of USD 2,500.
  • Obstructive Sleep Apnea Prevention Device: Mentored a student project in collaboration with Carleton University and SleepLabs, Canada, supported by the Mitacs Globalink Research Internship with funding of USD 6,000.
  • PhD Thesis Guidance: PERFORMANCE ENHANCEMENT OF 802.15.6 STANDARD-BASED MEDICAL BODY AREA NETWORK FOR REAL-TIME TRANSMISSION by Ms. Khushboo Dadhich.
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